[00:00:00] Straight Off Da Head - Brand Nubian [00:00:05] Yeah yeah for your mind [00:00:10] Hmm right let's see what we can come up with [00:00:15] Record after record yeah rhyme after check it [00:00:22] In the studio on the first try [00:00:25] On the verse high only birds fly [00:00:27] You get out the pack like that y'all [00:00:29] Straight off da head [00:00:30] What [00:00:31] Let niggaz know i use to wear the pro [00:00:33] Get three strikes yo i used to have to court awarder [00:00:37] But now i got a daughter and she gotta grow [00:00:39] And i let her know that that ain't the way to go [00:00:42] My name is x yo i'm like a puzzle when i get released [00:00:46] Just like i had my muzzle off [00:00:49] Check it out yo i can never be sold [00:00:52] You don't stop and you don't stop [00:00:55] And you don't quit [00:00:55] We're makin hit after hit after hit y'all [00:00:57] You don't stop [00:00:58] Comin straight off da head one time it's the dread lord j [00:01:02] Come around the way would you say [00:01:05] One time with my crew manifessin [00:01:07] Just like that now who you think you tessin [00:01:12] Brand nubian my crew be in effect [00:01:15] Get erect with the blunts and ya check [00:01:18] Right in one time goin to the bank i'm [00:01:21] Cashin and you know i be stashin [00:01:24] In the mattress one time with the phatness [00:01:28] Beats i be blowin up showin up [00:01:31] At shows checkin all the hoes [00:01:33] Just like that and defeatin all my foes go for jack [00:01:37] Yo my name is x yo my name is x [00:01:39] And i was born in the bx i went to new rochelle [00:01:42] Know my man mark the spark who live in the vernon [00:01:46] And my man be they rhythm dwell in bronxdale [00:01:49] In the home of the boss goin down the block or go to forest [00:01:53] Keep on goin past morris high school [00:01:56] Then i go down the street to courtland ave [00:02:00] Vietnam the male goes in jackson [00:02:02] Over the bridge on 45 th to 8 th ave [00:02:06] Go to 7 th ave go to polo grounds [00:02:08] Go to drewham 1 0 6 all the way to 1 10 [00:02:13] Black puerto rican and dominican check it out [00:02:16] We're gonna show you how we live [00:02:18] Take you straight across the bridge [00:02:20] To medina where the gods is meaner wisdom is cleaner [00:02:23] Straight down on flatbush ave [00:02:25] Some of the streets in brooklyn'll make you laugh [00:02:28] Names like myrtle and willoughby [00:02:32] Things like scurmerhorn and classun [00:02:35] And funny names like that but still they got the gats rollin [00:02:40] Just like that that's how we be strollin [00:02:42] Maestro manny and my man big ill we fill blunts [00:02:46] Just like that we kill stunts [00:02:49] Guts and what'cha want like that we got nuts [00:02:52] Just like that cos it's phat [00:02:55] Check it out yeah [00:02:56] Like that ya don't stop [00:02:57] And i keep on goin [00:02:58] I keep on goin [00:03:00] Just like that ya don't stop [00:03:02] My head keep goin on [00:03:03] Rob deep from mackadocious your cut be close [00:03:05] With the one blade ever since the first grade [00:03:07] I been a fan of the rap and i can do this [00:03:10] I use to watch and listen and watch the ol time greats [00:03:13] And watch em how they did things and i learned it well [00:03:17] I rip in new rochelle that's where i dwell [00:03:20] Check it out my name is x yo my man mark the spark's with me [00:03:24] My man serge got the urge to splurge he came from cleveland [00:03:28] All the way from ohio he's gonna letcha know [00:03:31] Can you deal with his flow yo yo [00:03:34] Aiyo peace to the gods peace to the earth [00:03:36] Peace to the birth of me and my seed khari [00:03:40] It's like that in effect one time and i'm [00:03:44] The black man intelligent with the plan [00:03:47] Islam be the bomb droppin on the devils [00:03:51] Goin to a higher level [00:03:53] Peace to farrakhan and the nation like that [00:03:55] Creation is black one time that's a fact [00:03:59] Original solar i'm lord jamar [00:04:02] Yes i be the intelligent one i be the sun shinin